Motorway victim is on a crash diet of Guinness

Motorway victim is on a crash diet of Guinness

Builder Simon Ford shed 9st in three months on a diet of 15 pints of Guinness a day

The 35-year-old dad-of-two was left unable to stomach solids after a motorway smash.[>

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So he turned to his favourite tipple to help build up his strength and proved the old advertising slogan: “Guinness is good for you.”[>

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The 6ft 3in divorcee has slimmed from 26st to 17st since February.[>

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He said: “It sounds like a recipe for disaster, eating nothing while downing pints all day, but it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me.[>

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“Once, my idea of exercise was puffing up the hill to my local. Now I’m walking 35 miles a day and feeling fitter than I’ve ever felt.[>

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“I doubt that WeightWatchers would recommend a diet of Guinness, but it’s worked for me.[>

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“Their new advertising slogan is ‘bring it to life’ and that’s what’s happened to me, I’m a new man.”[>

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Disaster struck for Simon when a piece of debris hit his van on the M1 and caused a blow-out. As the van careered off the road, a jackhammer embedded itself in his back.[>

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Simon, of Barnsley, South Yorks, added: “I had a nasty injury but I knew I was lucky to be alive. I had no appetite at all. I expected it to pass but it didn’t.[>

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“I had read Guinness was a good source of iron and used to be recommended to pregnant women. I like it and it’s a bit of a meal in itself, so I started drinking it instead of eating.”[>

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Simon is doing a sponsored 42-mile walk in memory of pal Captain Martin Driver, 31, of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, who died in March after being injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.[>